Interventions for preventing nausea and vomiting in women undergoing regional anaesthesia for caesarean section.

Background: Nausea and vomiting are distressing symptoms which are experienced commonly during caesarean section under regional anaesthesia and in the postoperative period.  OBJECTIVES: To assess the efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions versus placebo or no intervention given prophylactically to prevent nausea and vomiting in women undergoing regional anaesthesia for caesarean section.

Search Methods: For this update, we searched Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth's Trials Register, ClinicalTrials.